Cruz’s former roommate talks about Cruz's self-pleasuring — click only if you’ve already had lunch.

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Craig Mazin, a Los Angeles screenwriter and film maker, has made headlines in recent months for commenting on his unhappy time spent as the Texas senator’s college room mate.

According to Mother Jones, Cruz’s office argued in 2007 that “there is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship.”

Mazin quickly responded to Cruz’s reported comments on Wednesday:

Ted Cruz thinks people don't have a right to "stimulate their genitals." I was his college roommate. This would be a new belief of his.


AND


Ted Cruz did not have a dildo stashed under his pillow. Ted Cruz slept on top of his pillow.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/ted-cruzs-former-roommate-just-revealed-his-self-pleasuring-technique-only-click-if-youve-already-had-lunch/

[joeybee12]

1. Ted Cruz did not have a dildo stashed under his pillow. Ted Cruz slept on top of his pillow.

Priceless!

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Yeah.

That guy is pretty fucking funny.

[demtenjeep]

25. okay...I don't get what sleeping on top of a pillow does?

I am sure it is obvious but???

[BillZBubb]

26. No dildo underpillow, but cruz on top of pillow-->cruz is a dildo.

[demtenjeep]

27. oh okay

I was trying to figure out what he was doing with the pillow

[Warren DeMontague]

35. And--- way to lose the dorm roommate lottery.

Jeez, i thought mine was bad.

[Hortensis]

2. Good guy, good timing! Lol. Mother Jones has

an article on this, "The Time Ted Cruz Defended a Ban on Dildos." Actually, we could defeat Cruz based solely on his record as a Texas Solicitor General. The man's a religious extremist creep.

"... The brief insisted that Texas, in order to protect "public morals," had "police-power interests" in "discouraging prurient interests in sexual gratification, combating the commercial sale of sex, and protecting minors." There was a "government" interest, it maintained, in "discouraging…autonomous sex." The brief compared the use of sex toys to "hiring a willing prostitute or engaging in consensual bigamy," and it equated advertising these products with the commercial promotion of prostitution. In perhaps the most noticeable line of the brief, Cruz's office declared, "There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one's genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship." That is, the pursuit of such happiness had no constitutional standing. And the brief argued there was no "right to promote dildos, vibrators, and other obscene devices." The plaintiffs, it noted, were "free to engage in unfettered noncommercial speech touting the uses of obscene devices," but not speech designed to generate the sale of these items.

The brief by Cruz's office compared the use of sex toys to "hiring a willing prostitute or engaging in consensual bigamy," and it equated advertising these products with the commercial promotion of prostitution.

In a 2-1 decision issued in February 2008, the court of appeals told Cruz's office to take a hike. The court, citing Lawrence, pointed to the "right to be free from governmental intrusion regarding 'the most private human contact, sexual behavior.'" ....

Summing up, the judges declared, "The case is not about public sex. It is not about controlling commerce in sex. It is about controlling what people do in the privacy of their own homes because the State is morally opposed to a certain type of consensual private intimate conduct. This is an insufficient justification for the statute after Lawrence...Whatever one might think or believe about the use of these devices, government interference with their personal and private use violates the Constitution."

Btw, Cruz tried to appeal this decision but was turned down.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/ted-cruz-dildo-ban-sex-devices-texas

[Akamai]

5. This certainly is in agreement with the observation that a conservative is a person who is worried

and that someone, somewhere, is having a good time.

Kruz is certainly pathetic.

[Hortensis]

7. Heaven forbid, apparently literally.

They're totally committed to putting sex itself back in the closet. Pathetic and creepy, and dangerous, obsession.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. puritannical, anti-sex morals ninnies

always good for a chuckle or three.

[Hortensis]

13. Oh, yes!

[CTyankee]

3. honestrly, don't we have enough to worry about without dildo worry?

I don't think there is a Commandment from God saying thou shalt not pleasure oneself with a sex toy.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Well, Gail Dines is in Time and the WaPo trying to drum up a good old-fashioned porn morals panic

So maybe the two of them can do a joint speaking tour.

[yardwork]

31. I would not be surprised.

[Warren DeMontague]

32. Hell, even Sticky Ricky Santorum realizes that running against porn and vibrators is a loser.

[yardwork]

33. But the speaker fees can be good!

[lunatica]

23. It musta been on that third tablet that Moses dropped and broke

That and how womens are evil sinners who force men to rape them, and minorities' sin of coveting that 'stuff' that righteously belong to white men, plus the right to destroy the planet at will.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Creationists

[Skittles]

6. OH NO YOU DIDN'T

[Warren DeMontague]

9. You can't fool me

That thing is Ramsay Bolton's pork sausage.

[unapatriciated]

29. .........

[King_Klonopin]

8. The more that gets revealed, the creepier he gets! i i i i i c k y nt

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Mmmmmm. Hair.

[King_Klonopin]

14. How can you be sure he WAS NOT saying those things ?

Anyway, it was more palatable and entertaining than whatever
he actually said, I would assume. BTW, I could use some more goose diarrhea !

[Warren DeMontague]

18. That's the only problem with it.

It's just too close to real.

[progressoid]

17. That was just a little too realistic.

I need a blogel for the glotch.

[Warren DeMontague]

19. Exactly.

[enid602]

28. Cruz

Recently Bill Maher said that Ted Cruz has the appeal of Jared Fogle, but without the inspiring weight loss story.

[colorado_ufo]

36. Oh that was fantastic!

[King_Klonopin]

15. On a serious note...

He is not stupid. I am sure he knew his argument was pure bullshit and
violated right to privacy laws.

Ted Cruz believes in "whatever it takes to get right-wing, Texas, evangelicals
to like me on Facebook and vote for me." Amen.

[Old Union Guy]

16. No no no no no

It's really about states rights.

Really.

[Beartracks]

21. "no substantive-due-process right to (masturbate)"?

What does that even mean?



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[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. Well, since there's no substantive-due-process prohibition, ...

... I think it means, "do what you want to do".

[Bucky]

34. As a Texan, I'm pretty sure we still have a few anti-onanism laws still on the books

There's your due-process. In fact, Texas is practically slapping you in the face with all our due process.

See? You're covered in laws now.

[swimboy]

22. Best DU quote ever on the right to "self pleasuring"

"They can take that away from me when they pry it from my cold, dead, aloe-scented hands."

[thesquanderer]

30. "Cruz's self-pleasuring" was not a phrase I wanted to read over breakfast.

Or ever, really.